VIETNAM TODAY

Vietnamese players won one gold, one silver and one bronze medals at the 2011 Asian Individual Chess Championships held in Iran.

Around a third of the food produced in the world every year, equal to around 1.3 billion tonnes, gets lost or wasted, FAO says.

A Vietnamese firm has set up a joint venture with Wotif Group, a leading provider of online accommodation bookings in Pacific Asia.

A recent rush to get licenses for number of casino projects around the country may make gambling difficult to control.

The Cannes film festival got off to a glittering start on Wednesday, paying hommage to the creator of "Last Tango in Paris".

Australia plans to increase its assistance for Vietnam to AUD137.9 million (roughly USD150 million) in the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

A magnitude 5.1 quake killed at least eight people in southern Spain, sending historic buildings crashing down.

Air Mekong and Vietnam Air Services Co. are operating many more flights to Con Dao Island to meet high demand in this summer.

Syrian security forces and unidentified gunmen killed at least 19 civilians on Wednesday.

FPT IS, a subsidiary of FPT Corp., is the prime contractor for personal income tax management project in Vietnam.

Policies to generate jobs for the disable and prevent HIV in workplaces have been implemented in several firms in northern Vietnam.

Central bank's ban on gold deposits and lending will cause difficulties for banks in Vietnam to deal with gold already in stock.

Al-Qaeda's supremo in Yemen, Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland, has warned Americans of a bloodier jihadist struggle to come following the terror mastermind's killing by US commandos.

Two-story, clay-made houses built hundreds of years ago are unique architectural works of Nung ethnic minority people in Ha Giang.

Vietnam has launched a campaign called ‘Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020’.

Vietnamese travelling abroad can buy foreign currency worth USD100 per day for a maximum of 10 days.

NATO has insisted its bombing blitz in Libya is not aimed at Moamer Kadhafi.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is expected to book losses of over USD12 billion due to the crisis at its tsunami-hit nuclear power plant.

The HCM City Fund for the Poor has helped raise the incomes of 103,720 poor households, or 5.68 percent of the city's population.